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Former bilingual teacher Maldonado paid in $111K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $1.95M in retirement

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Former bilingual teacher Lillian Maldonado, who retired in October 2018, saved $111,484 toward a pension over 21 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Maldonado would collect as much as $1.95 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Maldonado received $40,932 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Maldonado will have already received $126,517 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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